Subject: gui install system
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <nick.maniscalco@alfalaval.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/09/1998 14:06:48
Anyone interested the option of a graphical install? After booting=20
from either a boot disk or cdrom the user would be presented with the=20
choice of a graphical or text-based install=2E
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If graphical is choosen a simple XFree system could be brought up=20
(using the 16 color VGA server) along with twm or another wm=2E Then=20
the installer would be brought up from there=2E One problem I see wit=
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this is the task of partitioning and labeling disks=2E I had a quick=20
look at the current installer for 1=2E3=2E2/i386 and it looked like th=
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ability to fdisk and label disks was integrated into sysinst=2E If th=
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is so then it should be too hard to use some of the same code and=20
integrate that into the graphical install system=2E
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The option of a graphical install would exist only for cdrom based=20
installations possibly=2E
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Anyway if people are interested in this I would like to know=2E As fo=
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the gui I think gtk would make a nice widget set for such a task=2E =20
Opinions on this?
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Thanks,
Nick